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By Errin HainesAssociated PressATLANTA - Years before Rosa Parks fought for justice from her seat on a Montgomery bus, she fought for Recy Taylor. Parks was an NAACPactivist crisscrossingAlabama in 1944 when shecame across the case ofTaylor, a 24-year-old wife and mother who was brutally gang raped and dumped on the side of a rural road. Taylor survived only to watch two all-white, all-male grand juries decline to indict the six white men who admitted to authorities that theyassaulted her.Taylor was one of many black women attacked by white men during an era in which sexual assaultthing, can be done to address the wrongs done to them.‘‘I didn’t get nothing, ain’t nothing been done about it,” Taylor, now 90, told The Associated Pressin a phone interview from her central Florida home.The AP is revealing Taylor’s identity because she has publicly identified herself as a victim of sexual assault.“I was an honest person and living right,” Taylor said. “They shouldn’t have did that. I never give them no reason to do it.For 20 years after she was raped, Taylor and her family lived in the same Abbeville, Ala., community as the families of her attackers. She spent many years living in fear, and says local whites contin-Associated PressRecy Taylor, 90, is seen her home in Winter Haven, Fla., last week. Taylor's brutal sexual assault by seven white men in 1944 in the racially divided South is featured in the book At The Dark End of the Street.mmmore to the movement than we think we know,” McGuire said. “When we listen to the voices of these women, we get a whole new perspective.”For Taylor’s brother, Robert Corbitt, a small measure of justice came courtesy of McGuire’s book, “At The Dark End of the Street,” which he said finally provided an accurate account of what happened to his sister, who helped raise him after his mother died.“I still don’t like what happened,” said Corbitt, now 74. “This happened 65, 66 years ago. It has never been a week that went by where it didn’t cross my mind.”When he retired in 2001 and moved from New Yorkhark to Ahhpvillp Tnrhitt
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